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Sounds like the ball joint broke.  Which when it allowed the wheel to lay 
at the
45 degree angle would pull on of the CV joints away from the halfshaft as
there are only circlips holding them on; as in the CV joint axles don't 
hold the
front end on and can't.

John


At 02:16 AM 9/6/03 +0000, E.Noval wrote:


>Let me just put it this way... the wheel was laying at a 45 degree angle.
>
>Since I broke down on the Triborough bridge in NYC (yeah you can
>imagine the nightmare) the car had to be towed away on the spot by the
>bridge authorities.
>
>The NYC car yard it went to wrote it off as a broken axle.
>
>I never did get to examine the car before it was repaired as I was
>on the way to the airport you see, and by time I got back it was repaired
>and back in my yard.
>
>I wish I had a chance to understand exactly what happened, and how at that
>time. Because I still think If I was going normal speed .. 65-70 that
>would have been the end of both me and the car.
>
>-ed